The Waste Land and Other Poems

This Norton Critical Edition includes:

The first American edition of The Waste Land, with Eliot’s notes, joined by Prufrock and Other Poems (1917) and Poems (1920).

Updated and expanded introductory materials and footnotes by Michael North.

Extensive contextual materials on sources for The Waste Land, its composition, and publication history for all three featured collections. Eleven reviews and reactions to Eliot’s works include those by Ezra Pound, Virginia Woolf, and Ralph Ellison.

Five new critical essays examine the themes and legacy of Eliot’s hallmark poems alongside eight classic literary critiques.

A chronology and a selected bibliography.

About the Series

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This splendid new edition of T. S. Eliot’s landmark poem provides an authoritative 1922 edition of the text, the most vital materials for understanding it, and, for this supremely allusive poem, a collection of essential sources. It also brings together Eliot’s most pertinent essays and all the English poems in his earlier books, as well as an illuminating array of reviews and criticism published over the last hundred years. – Jahan Ramazani, University of Virginia